The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Nonetheless, the dropouts declined for all black boys who had access to the course.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

As the nation grapples with the profound effects these challenges have on school communities, the term “ learning loss ” has made its way into the spotlight. This term is commonly used in stories detailing what children across America lost during remote learning. That is not easily replaced.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

His latest book, “ When ,” draws on research from psychology, biology and economics to explore how timing impacts every aspect of our lives—including of course, how we teach and learn. In this book you share some findings that are specific to teaching and learning. Big reductions in dropout rates. What are kids going to learn?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention is not a policy unknown. In that January 2014 blog post I said that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This unique 50-50 split allows students to participate in day-long projects and learning experiences in their communities without having to worry about the next class period cutting their time short. Autonomy also allows schools to determine what type of admissions policies work best for them. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

adjuncts worry about their ability to engage with students and how well their students are learning, according to a new study that compares Canadian adjuncts with what it calls the “woefully under-supported and poorly compensated” American adjuncts. You’re almost like a starving artist.” It’s not fair to them — we know that.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Establish a “no electronics policy” at dinnertime including for adults. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments. Ban the use of cellphones at dinnertime.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

One that affirms and celebrates their identities and helps them learn about and understand others? Because AI and machine learning can translate far more quickly, it is significantly less costly to create content in any given language, adding to the number of curricula offered in languages other than English.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. But I thought [online learning] is a card we can play.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why. What have we learned that can make a difference for the next folks coming through?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. Only 43 colleges out of 1,669 reviewed in a study by the Educational Policy Institute had a graduation rate of over 90 percent. Full disclosure: I’m an advisor to the company.) Over a million students drop out of college each year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Each new day brings another round of headlines about the struggles of the nation’s colleges to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the arrival of freshmen in reduced-occupancy dormitories, the limitations of remote learning and a sports season that seems unlikely to get off the ground.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 They learn something in one language and build on it in the other.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, 12, had been having panic attacks about school even before a letter arrived at his home last month, threatening legal action for his alleged absences from distance learning. In recent years, truancy policies have started shifting away from punitive measures to providing more support for students who are chronically absent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The reason some schools today are developing performance-based assessments, where students are graded on their ability to apply things they learn in class in scenarios that reflect the real world, is because advocates argue they uniquely evaluate skills students need to succeed in their future careers. Future of Learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A district offers students 6 instructional models—an approach that has led to zero dropouts. We have implemented a ‘zero dropout’ policy that does not allow students to drop out of our district,” he said. Next page: How the district juggles PBL, online learning, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Furthermore, federal financial aid policies could be changed to allow the living expenses of a student’s dependent children to be included in the student’s cost of college attendance. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Students with learning disabilities are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school and less likely to graduate from college than students without learning disabilities. Students living in poverty underperform, compared to those who are more affluent, on every measure of achievement at all stages of development.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Helping students resume their learning progress as they emerge from the pandemic may require more than academic intervention or acceleration. The coordinators’ familiarity with local families enabled them to provide resources needed for students to connect academically and learn remotely, as well as receive food and other support services.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Minga

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The United States leaves it to states to set policy, and, absent statewide bans, local school districts make their own rules. Families, faced with the prospect of missed learning time and a daytime scramble for childcare, opt for the faster, physical discipline and a return to class. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

High expectations and high support” are more successful in changing behaviors because there’s clarity about what students need to do and the support for them to learn, re-learn and practice those skills. As students head back to class, it’s on us, as adults, to ensure that we are creating the necessary conditions for learning. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Too often, our education system sends the one in five children with learning and attention issues into the world without the skills they need to succeed. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. Students with learning and attention issues are smart and can succeed. So why does this happen?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why,” said Tom Sheppard, a New York City parent and representative on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. “No Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 88

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time. People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? They don’t know whether they have two months, three months.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In practice, this process is more complicated and sometimes relegates capable students into diluted settings, stunting their ability to not only learn in school but also to achieve later in life. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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